Ben Frost Painting Furore

A PAINTING of two children preparing to shoot up displayed in a shop window in Fortitude Valley has sparked a public debate, amid calls for customers to boycott the boutique.

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News & Politics

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• ben
• frost
• sunrise
• art
• painting
• controversy
• Brisbane
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[benfrost2000]

advertising is the currency of the 21st century. get used to it.. .

[benfrost2000]

yeah, well - i don't write the news. if i did, they wouldn't let it on television.

[spankarter]

why?

[benfrost2000]

because it would contain mostly sock puppets

[Pterodactylmanvision]

Sifl & Olly should have interviewed you Ben! A shot in the arm for this flailing show..teehee

[surrealevolution]

free promo rulez!

[slamjam93]

sunrise shits me

[ediepassion]

the currency and food for a whole genertaion !!yum yum!!...ilove that piece!@

[blazinrokz]

it amazes me that they manage to turn what was billed initially as a discussion on offensive drug peddling art, into a on air sunrise plugfest. and without shame, during sunrise itself. i'm still laughing. bring on the sock puppets. loose stitching has to have more character than this brand of puppet.

[orchestraofone]

The way the "experts" bigged up Sunrise was pretty lame.

"get on sunrise (number one show in australia)"

[quaintsaint]

Kochie was so disappointed at the end that they didn't tear you to shreds Ben.

Good publicity :)

-dittmar

[spankarter]

what debate, there is no debate, this show is one big advertisement, no art historian, no art critic, no artist response, nothing,,,how freaking boring Using children in art is always loaded with double meanings and contrversary. Its a shame they arent giving the artist a plug for the art instead it is on a big add, and it is another big add for the clothes shop and an add for the artist who art i thought didnt aspire to that sort of thing..I must of read his work so very wrongly...doh?